Recomendações para desenvolvimento de memoriais digitais para animais de estimação

Abstract

For generations, humans have domesticated animals. Such domestication proved capable of creating a strong attachment between some animals and humans, só that such creatures end up becoming loved ones. Although this bond is not the same as that between humans, the death of these beings can cause a grieving process as strong as that of a human loss. The present work aims to produce a list of recommendations for verification, useful for the development of digital memorials for pets, with an applied research approach. The survey was carried out through an analysis of the functionalities of Silva e Silva (2021) and recommendations mapped by Ueda e Maciel (2021), verifying whether there is total or partial applicability in memorials intended for pets, and performing a correlation between the results of these two approaches, identifying which aforementioned features need to be complemented to meet the recommendations, and which other unmapped features are necessary to meet them, reaching 40 recommendations. Finally, the checklist was used to evaluate 24 existing digital pet memorial systems, to verify in practice the usability of the checklist, and to make the necessary improvements to the list, resulting in the updated checklist with 52 recommendations.